Students’ Attitudes toward Teacher Feedback

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1. Context of the study

This research was conducted in Faculty of Language and Arts, specifically in English Language Teaching Program in one of private university in Central Java. This faculty is chosen as research site because the access to the faculty is quite easy in term of location and also the procedure. Another reason is because this faculty opens micro teaching class during data collection allocation time in semester II 2015-2016. Micro teaching course is a required course in a four year English teacher education program in the department. This is a two credit course in English Education program that focuses on preparing student teacher for real teaching situation. The next reason o why this site is chosen is because, after the students conduct their mini lesson, the teachers are required to give the students feedback orally or written, so the students can reflect on their mistakes during the mini lessons. The mini lesson itself is conducted for three times with three different curriculums that are commonly used in Indonesia KTSP, 2013 Curriculum, and Cambridge Curriculum. The length of each mini lesson is about 15 minutes.

2. Participants

This study involved 10 undergraduate students, 2 male and 8 female. All of the students were registered as students in micro teaching class in undergraduate English Teacher Education Program of private university in central Java. The data was collected at the end of the 2nd semester of 20152016, after all of the participants finished their last mini lesson. 10

3. Instrument

To answer the research question that is “what are the students‟ attitudes toward teacher written feedback?”, this study used semi structured interview to collect the data. The interview method is chosen as the instrument because it can obtain comprehensively detailed data Saunders, 2007. Moreover, according to Patton 1990 semi structure interview or interview guided approach is more flexible. The flexibility includes the flexibility in changing the order of the questions. Therefore there will be a place for follow up questions that is very important to clarify participant answer. The interview items were the adaptation from Rodgers, Horvath , Jung, Fry, Diefes-Dux, Cardella 2015 that originally investigated students‟ attitudes toward teaching assistant and peer feedback. The list of guidance questions below was adapted to fit the context of this study that investigates the attitudes toward teacher feedback. 1. Can you please describe the type of feedback that you received from your teacher? 2. How did you respond to that feedback? 3. Did you encounter any challenges in responding to the feedback from your teacher? If yes, how did you work around these challenges? 4. Do you improve after you received the feedback? In what way do you improve?